Hibiscus on the Lake - 20th Century Telugu Poetry from India

A lyrical anthology of contemporary poetry from India. English speakers may read for the first time a previously hidden literature of great beauty and importance, compiled and translated by one of the foremost scholars of the literature of twentieth-century India. Richly appealing, sensitively and masterfully translated, surprisingly accessible, and adeptly organized, these poems from the Telugu language of southern India will find in this groundbreaking anthology the wider international readership they deserve and a place in the worldwide emergence of India's literature.

About the author

Velcheru Narayana Rao is the Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coeditor, with David Shulman, of A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India.

Summary

This work makes accessible to English speakers a hidden literature of great beauty and importance. The poems are from the Telegu language of southern India.

Product details

• Authors: Velcheru Narayana Rao
• Assisted by: Velcheru Narayana Rao (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780299177041
• ISBN: 978-0-299-17704-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama